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...campaigning was for the March 16 parliamentary elections, which political pundits are calling the most problematic in recent French history. Since the birth of the Fifth Republic in 1958, France has had a strong President whose party held majority control of the legislature. The system was tailor-made to suit Charles de Gaulle and was established in reaction to the revolving-door governments of the Fourth Republic, which witnessed 26 Cabinets between 1946 and 1958. Now, however, the stability of the Fifth Republic may be ending. Mitterrand, whose term as President runs until 1988, faces the very real prospect...
Since the competition can be fierce, film societies often tailor their approaches to correspond to a particular house's stereotype. Adams and Dunster Houses, for example, tend to show artsy and foreign films. "We don't show regular movies like The Graduate because we don't see the point of showing accessible movies," says Dunster film society President Mark Csikszentmihalyi...
...minority government. After last week's balloting, the Prime Minister was conciliatory. Said he: "I intend to continue to consult with the President. I will not create problems." Soares responded in kind, noting that "the President is the guarantor, the moderator, not the governor." Indeed, his new role seemed tailor made for the durable Socialist leader who has long been more of a consensus builder than an ideologue...
Along the way Davies populates early 20th century Canada and England with characters that leap off the page and both fascinate with their oddity and inform with their basic humanity. There is the dwarf tailor in Cornish's small town, Blairlogie, who a group of town toughs humiliate one night. Despairing, he hangs himself. Cornish sketches him in the morgue and this dwarf eventually becomes the subject of one of Cornish's greatest paintings...
...book like Couture is irresistible to an amateur fashion handicapper. The author gushes a bit over Karl Lagerfeld, a cheeky, fluent idea man, and finds nearly invisible depth in the creations of Hardy Amies, a reliable but stodgy British tailor. The book is hobbled by rather arbitrary categories she imposes to organize her designers: artists (Fortuny, Mary McFadden), purists (Chanel, Vionnet), architects (Balenciaga, Charles James), realists (Norman Norell and Miyake, of all people). Also, although it may be patrician not to talk about money, the vast fortunes made by the likes of Saint Laurent and Lauren go unrecorded, making...